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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
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Language
English
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 30
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 30
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 1
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 30
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy poses as a beauty pagaent contestant to help uncover the truth about her friend, Portia Leoni, whose crown was taken away from her after she was accused of shoplifting.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 32
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 3
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 32
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 3
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 32
Language
English
Description
Nancy is held captive New York City by some bad guys from pretty Face Cosmetics--the same company sponsoring the beauty pageant she's supposed to compete in. This time, Nancy will need Bess and George to come to her rescue.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
10) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
11) Like Vanessa
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
12) Bone appetit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 31
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 2
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 31
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 2
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 31
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
George, Bess, and Nancy continue their investigation of the Miss Pretty Face Beauty Pageant in New York City.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this charming and witty romantic comedy reminiscent of Miss Congeniality and The Parent Trap, the acclaimed author of Unleashing Mr. Darcy and Royally Wed shows us that sometimes being pushed out of your comfort zone leads you to the ultimate prize"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
In the 1940s young women, winners of beauty contests and dance competitions, flocked to Hollywood with stars in their eyes. Violet Harcourt seems to have disappeared there without a trace. Sixty years later, a young woman sets out to discover what happened to Violet on that long ago summer.
16) Time to roll
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad"--
17) Crowned
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Presley loves the pageant world. She knows how to work the crowd and looks gorgeous in an evening gown. But really, she needs the pageant world -- for its scholarships and opportunities. The only thing standing in her way? Her archrival, Megan, who was practically born wearing a crown and sash. Megan may be the nastiest girl on the circuit, but she has one thing that Presley doesn't: connections. And she won't hesitate to use them. What happens when...
18) Sugar and iced
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn't be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel's mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can't say no. Plus between cooking up a daily display for the three-day event and sponsoring a cupcake creation challenge for the participants, Fairy Tale Cupcakes will get great publicity. But the world of pageants is even hotter...
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Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
De diez años de edad, Raymi Clarke se ha dado cuenta de que absolutamente todo depende de ella. Y ella tiene un plan. Si ella puede ganar la pequeña Miss Central Florida tire de la competencia, entonces su padre, que se fue de la ciudad hace dos días con un higienista dental, verá la imagen de Raymi en el papel y volver a casa. Para ganar, no sólo Raymi tiene que hacer buenas obras y aprender a girar un bastón de mando; ella también tiene que...
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